Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry Edible

Shoots shaggy pubescent with solitary small recurved prickles.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry edible.

It s tough and drought tolerant once established. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus. Yellow orange berries are ripe in mid summer and taste good.

Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color. The edible fruits follow white flowers which are borne in early summer. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range.

Calycinoides has small leathery leaves and orange fruit on a 4 to 8 inch plants. Rubus calycinoides creeping raspberry is an evergreen groundcover forming a dense carpet adorned with long spreading branches clothed in lustrous emerald green thickly textured leaves. Emerald carpet creeping raspberry rubus pentalobus syn. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate.

Creeping raspberry fruits are similar in appearance to blackberries or red raspberries but differ in that their color is yellow to orangish red. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides. Plant on an open north or east side for the best. The broad leathery dark green evergreen leaves of emerald carpet raspberry make a good ground cover for weed suppression and soil stabilization.

There are no known pests or diseases which affect the creeping raspberry. Leaves alternate simple broadly oval rounded 2 4 cm long and wide 3 5 lobes base deeply cordate margins undulate and sharply serrate deep green pubescent underneath. Rubus calycinoides emerald carpet rubus hayata koidzumii is probably better known by the illegitimate synonym rubus calycinoides or as creeping raspberry. While the orange fruit is edible and tasty each raspberry is tiny and the plant does not produce huge yields.

Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together. Grows in sun or shade. Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Evergreen groundcover dense low mat to about 12 inches 30 cm high creeping grows 30 cm yr.